Blog ≫ 2022 ≫ Spontaneous 20km
Sort of spontaneous. I set myself a challenge of getting up to 20km in one run this month, and this weekend was the one I'd have the most time to do this sort of thing. So I had a very light lunch, put on some sun cream, and ran beyond Hythe to the West, turned around and ran East to Folkestone, including an unnecessary hill right up onto The Leas. Then down Rememberance Hill and back along the sea front to home. Just over 20km.
Was nice out, hot to start with, then breezy when I turned around. The wind was blowing into my face all the way from Hythe to Folkestone. On The Leas I saw the remains of the event that the parkrun was cancelled for. It looked like the usual suspects of stalls and a few classic cars, not many though.
Strava says my 15km within that 20km was faster than my previous longest distance of 15km that I did a few weeks ago. This 20km is obviously my longest distance I have done, it's longer even than the Great South Run.
Twenty-five years ago today I was on tour with the NME! The NME Brat Bus Tour. Not a strong line-up, but I was on the bus for a couple of days helping to set up recording the gigs and live blogging the shows1 (before live blogging was a thing).
- I was not doing the live blogging, they had a trained journalist to do that, I was helping set it up. They thought it those days you needed trained writers to give opinions on the internets.
5k: Five kilometres, about three miles in old money.
20k: Twenty km, about twelve miles.